Regional Waste Plant

December 18, 1998

ESSEX — Residents at a town meeting Wednesday unanimously approved the town's participation in a planned regional household hazardous waste disposal plant to be located in Essex.

As host town for the plant, to be built near the existing regional solid waste transfer station off Route 154, Essex will receive a $20,000 grant to buy safety equipment for the volunteer fire department and a rebate on annual fees for using the plant.

The plant is to be constructed next year with a $250,000 state Department of Environmental Protection grant. It will serve Chester, Clinton, Deep River, Essex, Killingworth, Lyme, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook and Westbrook.

Kenneth Wexler, who has served as chairman of the water pollution control commission, was appointed to an unexpired alternate's term on the zoning commission ending on Dec. 1, 1999. Ann Prout was appointed to an unexpired alternate's term on the zoning commission ending Dec. 1, 2000.